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When raccoons are tearing through your garbage and bears are wrecking your campsite, it might feel like animals have no respect for the law.
But amid the chaos of the animal kingdom, there are bastions of law and order.
Just look at this deer, abiding city ordinance.
On Wednesday, Bountiful Police D...
When raccoons are tearing through your garbage and bears are wrecking your campsite, it might feel like animals have no respect for the law.
But amid ...

Through the smoke and flames, Kyle Christensen found the man he was looking for at the bottom of the basement stairs.
Ammunition was heating up and going off, but the Roy officer pulled the man out of the basement and — with the help of a second officer — out of the burning house.
And his heroism ha...
Through the smoke and flames, Kyle Christensen found the man he was looking for at the bottom of the basement stairs.
Ammunition was heating up and go...

Police lights are red, their uniforms are blue, and an officer helped two young people on their way to “I do.”
Yes, a police officer helped a young man propose to his girlfriend on Valentine’s Day. The boyfriend asked the Bountiful Police Department for help with a fake traffic stop, said Officer ...
Police lights are red, their uniforms are blue, and an officer helped two young people on their way to “I do.”
Yes, a police officer helped a young ...

Six West Valley City police dogs are about to receive vests to protect them from guns, knives and tire irons, thanks to a Massachusetts non-profit.
The six canines — Copper, Taz, Lobo, Halo, Sam and Chief — will receive the ballastic vests on Tuesday. The vests help protect them from “shots, stabbin...
Six West Valley City police dogs are about to receive vests to protect them from guns, knives and tire irons, thanks to a Massachusetts non-profit.
Th...

When reading the Headless Horseman his Miranda rights, is it fair to skip the part about the right to remain silent?
I mean, he doesn’t even have a neck — courtesy Ichabod Crane, in FOX’s ludicrously silly and ridiculously fun “Sleepy Hollow.” Now that he (like this Rap Sheet blog) has risen from th...
When reading the Headless Horseman his Miranda rights, is it fair to skip the part about the right to remain silent?
I mean, he doesn’t even have a ne...

Veteran political reporter Rod Decker went to Denver to ask how Colorado’s....
You know what, that’s burying the lede, as we say in the news business. Rod Decker buys marijuana! That’s the lede here.
Decker is a bit vague on what happened after the purchase.
Click on the video to see the transacti...
Veteran political reporter Rod Decker went to Denver to ask how Colorado’s....
You know what, that’s burying the lede, as we say in the news business....

Veteran political reporter Rod Decker went to Denver to ask how Colorado’s....
You know what, that’s burying the lede, as we say in the news business. Rod Decker buys marijuana! That’s the lede here.
Decker is a bit vague on what happened after the purchase.
Click on the video to see the transacti...
Veteran political reporter Rod Decker went to Denver to ask how Colorado’s....
You know what, that’s burying the lede, as we say in the news business....

A Utah attorney was disbarred recently after he allegedly became belligerent when a judge refused to hear his case. And at a later hearing regarding this behavior, he called witnesses “liars” and “idiots.”
The July-August edition of the Utah Bar Journal outlined the incidents that led to Ivins-based...
A Utah attorney was disbarred recently after he allegedly became belligerent when a judge refused to hear his case. And at a later hearing regarding t...

A man who was in the news last year for testifying during Martin MacNeill’s murder trial is making headlines again — but it has nothing to do with the former doctor’s case.
A “Get Gephardt” investigation that aired on KUTV earlier this week alleges that Jason Poirier took money from at least three p...
A man who was in the news last year for testifying during Martin MacNeill’s murder trial is making headlines again — but it has nothing to do with the...

The #IfTheyGunnedMeDown hashtag raises powerful questions about how the media presents victims of violence, particularly when those victims are young men of color.
The discussion began in reaction to photos used in news coverage of Michael Brown, the unarmed, black teenager who was shot to death by...
The #IfTheyGunnedMeDown hashtag raises powerful questions about how the media presents victims of violence, particularly when those victims are young ...